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... industry , to gain enough to have recompensed me for my money expended , and time lost in the pursuit of this learning . You cannot be ignorant , sir , ( for your intimate second - sighted correspondent knows all things ) that there are ...
... industry , to gain enough to have recompensed me for my money expended , and time lost in the pursuit of this learning . You cannot be ignorant , sir , ( for your intimate second - sighted correspondent knows all things ) that there are ...
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... Yet , when a man is once thus infatuated , he is so far from being discouraged by ill success , that he is rather animated to double his industry , and will try c 2 MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 33 here is not at this time so much as one ...
... Yet , when a man is once thus infatuated , he is so far from being discouraged by ill success , that he is rather animated to double his industry , and will try c 2 MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 33 here is not at this time so much as one ...
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... industry and frugality are neglected , or forgotten . There seems to be some peculiar charm in the conceit of finding money ; and if the sands of Schuylkil were so much mixed with small grains of gold , that a man might in a day's time ...
... industry and frugality are neglected , or forgotten . There seems to be some peculiar charm in the conceit of finding money ; and if the sands of Schuylkil were so much mixed with small grains of gold , that a man might in a day's time ...
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... industry and manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every ...
... industry and manufactures . " For my part , " says he , " I esteem the banks of New- foundland to be a more valuable possession than the mountains of Potosi ; and when I have been there on the fishing account , have looked upon every ...
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... industry , you might have taken à greater trust upon you . But now , when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man who has not ...
... industry , you might have taken à greater trust upon you . But now , when you find yourself incapable of aiding a private man , how can you think of behaving yourself so as to be useful to a whole people ? Ought a man who has not ...
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